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118 East 40th Street image

118 East 40th Street
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118 East 40th Street, west side, adjoining Linden Boulevard, ca. 1928.

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3619 Church Avenue image

3619 Church Avenue

\[Church Avenue Looking Toward Brooklyn Avenue on Gravesend-Church Trolley Line, Brooklyn, NY] Church Avenue looking West toward Brooklyn Avenue on the Gravesend-Church Avenues trolley line in Brooklyn, NY. Camera is positioned on Church Avenue atop the trolley tracks.
3619 Church Avenue image

3619 Church Avenue

\[Church Avenue Looking Toward East 37th Street on Gravesend-Church Trolley Line, Brooklyn, NY] Church Avenue looking toward East 37th Street on the Gravesend-Church Avenues trolley line in Brooklyn, NY. Camera is positioned on Church Avenue beside the trolley tracks.
118 East 40th Street image

118 East 40th Street

890 Albany Avenue image

890 Albany Avenue

890 Albany Av Facade of three-story, shingle house with dormer windows and front porch at 890 Albany Avenue; two small trees, large bush, and sidewalk in foreground, lawn on both sides, and portions of several buildings in distant background.
917 Albany Avenue image

917 Albany Avenue

\[Church Avenue at Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, NY] Church Avenue at Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Eastward view of Church Avenue, showing multiple trolley lines, cars, pedestrians, and trolley stations on both sides of the street.
917 Albany Avenue image

917 Albany Avenue

\[Church Avenue at Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, NY] Church Avenue at Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Westward view of Church Avenue, showing multiple trolley lines, with an East bound trolley in the distance. Also showing cars, delivery trucks, shops, pedestrians, and children on tryicycles.
917 Albany Avenue image

917 Albany Avenue

\[Church Avenue at Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, NY] Church Avenue at Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Eastward view of Church Avenue, showing multiple trolley lines, cars, pedestrians, and a trolley station.
Brooklyn image

Brooklyn

Board of Water Supply. City Water Tunnel No. 2. Patrick McGovern, Inc., contractor. View in tunnel showing north end of the 17 foot diameter sidewall forms in position for concreting. Concrete cars are brought up an incline at the far end to the upper level, then dumped on either side on the top platform. Concrete is then deposited behind the forms by hand labor. The compressed air hoist shown on the platform is used for drawing the train of cars up the incline and then for moving the forms into position for the next pour. July 21, 1931.
Brooklyn image

Brooklyn

Father's day Three Brooklyn Dodgers seated on sofa, each holding baby daughter on lap; coffee table before them, curtains and window blinds behind them. Caption on verso: "Father's Day: Dodger players had their hands full yesterday with no game scheduled at Ebbets Field. Pictured at Clyde King's house are, left to right, Rube Walker and daugher Deborah, King and daughter Princy and Ralph Branca and daughter Patty."
Brooklyn image

Brooklyn

Board of Water Supply. City Water Tunnel No. 1. Near the Brooklyn end of the tunnel, a branch on the left heads north toward Fort Greene Park. Water started flowing through the tunnel in January 1917, bringing Catskill water to Brooklyn and Queens. November 7, 1913.
Brooklyn image

Brooklyn

Board of Water Supply. City Water Tunnel No. 2. Patrick McGovern, Inc., contractor. Grouting of the concrete tunnel lining in progress. The equipment is rigged up on flat cars being moved into position by a storage battery locomotive. Generally four such cars are used, holding, respectively, cement and sand, a grout mixing machine, a pump, and a timber working platform for drilling out and making connections to the grout pipes. In the left foreground is the grout mixing machine, followed by the pump and working platform cars. The grout hose leading from the pump is shown connected to one of the arch grout pipes. November 20, 1931.
Brooklyn image

Brooklyn

Board of Water Supply. City Water Tunnel No. 1. Workers had completed the initial phase of grouting in this Brooklyn section of tunnel, but water still poured in from rock seams on the other side of the concrete tunnel lining. The next phase of grouting filled the seams to reduce that flow, then the tunnel was cleaned to complete this messy job. February 7, 1914.
Brooklyn image

Brooklyn

Board of Water Supply. City Water Tunnel No. 2. Patrick McGovern, Inc., contractor. Grouting of the concrete tunnel lining in progress. The equipment is rigged up on flat cars being moved into position by a storage battery locomotive. Generally four such cars are used, holding, respectively, cement and sand, a grout mixing machine, a pump, and a timber working platform for drilling out and making connections to the grout pipes. The grout is pumped through a hose connection into the grout pipe. The pump is seen in the foreground with the grout mixing machine being loaded directly behind it. November 20, 1931.
Brooklyn image

Brooklyn

Board of Water Supply. City Water Tunnel No. 2. Patrick McGovern, Incorporated, contractor. View in the tunnel. In right foreground are two centrifugal pumps and motors for handling the inflow of water in the tunnel at this location. The pumps' capacity of 400 gallons per minute are driven by a 100 horse power General Electric induction motor. In left foreground is the tugger for handling the muck cars at the foot of the shaft. August 22, 1930.
Public School 181 image

Public School 181

Brooklyn: New York Avenue - Tilden Avenue New York Avenue, east side, between Tilden and Snyder Avenues, showing Public School No. 181. Board of Education of the City of New York March 21, 1921
State University of New York Health Science Center image

State University of New York Health Science Center

Brooklyn 129, Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave; Jerry Spearman, Photographer
State University of New York Health Science Center image

State University of New York Health Science Center

State University College of Medicine Image represented is one of a related set (SCHL 0326, SCHL 0324, SCHL 0325), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four views of construction progress on Basic Sciences Building at State University College of Medicine, now named State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, on Clarkson Avenue.
State University of New York Health Science Center image

State University of New York Health Science Center

New medical center for borough Caption: "New medical center for borough--First drawings by Eggers and Higgins, architects, of $10,500,000 science building of State University medical center \[now named State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn] in vicinity of Kings County Hospital. With facilities for 800 medical students, building will include lecture halls, labs, dining room and library. Ground is to be broken in a year."
State University of New York Health Science Center image

State University of New York Health Science Center

State University of New York at NYC College of Medicine Construction site for State University College of Medicine, now named State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, on Clarkson Avenue with several workmen, cement mixer, and derrick.
State University of New York Health Science Center image

State University of New York Health Science Center

State University College of Medicine Image represented is one of a related set (SCHL 0326, SCHL 0324, SCHL 0325), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four views of construction progress on Basic Sciences Building at State University College of Medicine, now named State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, on Clarkson Avenue.
State University of New York Health Science Center image

State University of New York Health Science Center

State University College of Medicine Image represented is one of a related set (SCHL 0326, SCHL 0324, SCHL 0325), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four views of construction progress on Basic Sciences Building at State University College of Medicine, now named State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, on Clarkson Avenue.
State University of New York Health Science Center image

State University of New York Health Science Center

State University College of Medicine Image represented is one of a related set (SCHL 0326, SCHL 0324, SCHL 0325), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four views of construction progress on Basic Sciences Building at State University College of Medicine, now named State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, on Clarkson Avenue.
Public School 235 image

Public School 235

Public School 235 playground Snapshot view of P. S. 235 playground located at the intersection of Clarkson Avenue and East 39th Street. The location of the school is 525 Lenox Road.
Public School 235 image

Public School 235

P.S. 235 Close-up of facade of PS 235, a large, four-story, masonry building located at 525 Lenox Road, with iron fence along front and side and construction site in foreground.
Public School 235 image

Public School 235

Children find another nursery Caption: "Children find another nursery--Entering Public School 235 \[located at 525 Lenox Road], where the East Flatbush Child Care Nursery \[sign on wall at entrance, "East Flatbush Child Care Center"] welcomed children of the homeless Flatbush Day Nursery, are, left to right, Herman Babich and his daughter, Laurie Gail, 4; Mrs. Rose Rosenthal and daughter, Barbara, 4 1/2, and Mrs. Helen DiManna and son, Tommy, 2 1/2."
Barnum and Bailey Circus image

Barnum and Bailey Circus

Flatbush: Barnum & Bailey circus tents, pitched at Clarkson Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue, undated.
3101 Snyder Avenue image

3101 Snyder Avenue

3101 Snyder Ave Facades of three, attached, two-story row houses on Snyder Avenue at East 31st Street with four pedestrians (two women standing at corner, women with baby carriage and boy on right), street light and parked automobile. Caption: "The Flatbush Community League will open its health clinic in this building \[far left] at 3101 Snyder Ave. as soon as furniture in installed, within a few days. No treatment will be given, but children will be examined by physicians and nurses assigned by the Health Department. ..."
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